Re: Asteroids mini-cab with Vectrex monitor

Not as young as you think. I was working in the arcades in '81. I guess I missed that one. Probably preoccupied with being newly married and then a child right after when the Vectrex came out.

On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:40 AM, Andre Huijts <a.huijts@up mail.nl> wrote:

> Never heard of the Vextrex ?? You must be pretty young :) I knew about them from BITD but bought one only recently and love it. It's a great system with fun games, definitely worth buying a second one and leave that intact..... :)
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> Op 24 feb. 2013, om 23:57 heeft Chuck <chuck@localsurfer.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> Juergen,
>> That is really cool! I have never heard of the Vectrex, not I have it on my want list for my game room. That project you built is sweet!
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>> Chuck
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>> On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Jürgen Müller wrote:
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>>> My first post to the list – but I have spent quite a bit of time reading the archives over the last few months!
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>>> A few years ago I bought two non-working Asteroids boards, after becoming intrigued with the digital vector generator. (I certainly had no idea how they achieved those line graphics, much neater than on my Apple II, when I first saw the game in 1981.) Managed to fix them both, built a little “picture frame” cabinet with power supplies and buttons for one of them, and have hence been able to play Asteroids on my oscilloscope. Nice, but something was missing…
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>>> Over the last few months, I built a little bar-top cabinet for the other Asteroids board. I definitely wanted a real vector CRT – a broken Vectrex console served as the donor for the monitor. I think I found a good solution for accelerating the XY driver to keep up with the Asteroids drawing speed; small-signal bandwidth (rather than drive voltage) was the key.
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>>> I have put together a little web site describing this project, with photos of the cabinet and details of the XY driver. Please have a look at www.e-basteln.de/asteroids if you are curious. Questions and comments are welcome!
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>>> Regards from Hamburg, Germany –
>>> Juergen
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> André Huijts
> andre.huijts@upcmail.nl
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